Vehicle-alarm



D. A. GILLEN.

VEHICLE ALARM.

AVPPLICATION FILED JAN.3I.1920.

1,361,762. Patented Dec. 7,1920.

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DANIEL ALOYSIUS GILLEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VEHICLE-ALARM.

- 1,361,762. I p Specification of Letters Patent. t t 7, 1920 Application filed January 31, 1920. Serial No. 355,473. g

T all whom it may concern: as viewed in cross section is made up of Be it known that I, DANIEL A. GILLEN, compound curvature makin the central or a citizen of the United States, and a resieye portion of the crown of sharper curvadent of the city of New York, Flushing, t-ure than the main portion thereof. borou 'h of Queens, in the county of Queens As a suitable means for attaching the 60 and tate of New York, have invented a gong to the wheel, I provide a pin 14 fixed new and Improved Vehicle-Alarm, of which rigidly and permanently through a hole 15 the following is a full, clear, and exact deformed through the felly 16 and having a scription. head or lug 17 adapted to project through 10 This invention relates to safety applithe hole 13 aforesaid. Adjacent to the head 65 ances for automobiles or other vehicles and 17 is a round shoulder 18 against which the has particular reference to audible alarm crown of the gong is adapted to hear when devices calculated to prevent an automobile locked in place by some suitable detachable or other vehicle from being operated by an fastener shown herein as in the nature of 15. unauthorized person without detection and a padlock having a shackle 19 projecting 70 apprehension. through a hole 20 formed transversely Among the specific objects of the inventhrough the head 17. 7

tion is to provide an attachment for at least As indicated the design of the gong is one of the wheels of the vehicle which is in such that the connection between the crown 20 the nature of a large bell or gong, which thereof and the wheel, will be made close 7 5 I when in use and carried by the rotating to the felly and hence not far remote from wheel, will be brought with such an impact the inner portion of the tire of the wheel. against the ground or roadway as to cause The compound curvature above indicate a loud clanging noise suflicient to inform insures that there will be little or no availthe public or the officials that the vehicle able space observed between the gong and 80 being so moved is being stolen. said tire. In practice, if the vehicle be Another object of the invention is to adapt started while the gong is attached as shown, the gong to a specific form for the particuthe periphery of the gong will be brought lar purpose for which it is to be used. into contact with the roadwa causing a Another object of the invention is to proloud clanging of the gong. oreover, not 85 'vide a construction which is adapted to be only will the gong render a loud report easily applied to or removed from the wheel when striking the ground, but also the pad by the one who has the key or other neceslock hung as indicated will drop and strike sary means, but which cannot bereadily reagainst the gong twice during each rotamoved from the wheel byany one surreptltion of the wheel, and hence the gong will 90 tiously. be caused to sound by this means auxiliary lVith the foregoing and other objects in to its impact' against the ground or road view, but without unnecessarily limiting way. The hole 18 being round provides for the construction in the precise manner illusfree rotation of the gon around the axis 40 trated, a preferred embodiment of the inof the pin 14 or its head 1%. Hence no dam- 95 vention is illustrated in the accompanying age can result to the attachment even though drawings, wherein similar parts are referred the vehicle be started without removing the to in the several views by like reference attachment, as may be required in the event characters, and in who of a fire or other emergency along city Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion streets, and to comply with certain local or- 100 Referrin now more specifically to the relatively fiat gong is designed to present a of the vehicle wheel to the felly of which dinances forbidding the locking of a vehimy improvement is shown attached. cle so that it cannot be moved by officials Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line when necessary. 22 of Fig. 1. This alarm device, comprising a large drawings, show my invention as comprischaracteristic appearance and so be recoging a gong 10 of circular form and of a rela- .nizable by the public and especially the tively fiat nature, and a wide open bell or police oflicers, and so reduce the likelihood mouth 11 and. a. crown 12 provided with an of surreptitious meddling or tampering with eccentric round bearing hole 18. The crown vehicles left standing on the street. The

means for detachingthe detachable part of the device from the wheel are such that neither can the gong be removed readily by a thief, nor can it be'interferedwith in such' a Way as to prevent the audible manifestation if the vehicle is operated without removing the gong.

I claim:

1. In a safety attachment for vehicle Wheels, the combination of a transverse bearing support carried by the Wheel parallel to its axis, a gong having a bearing hole through which the said bearing support projects loosely, and means to detachably secure the gong upon said bearing.

2. A device of the nature set forth in claim 1, in which the gong is adapted to strike against the ground when the vehicle wheel is rotated. V

3. A device such as set forth in claim 1, in which the meansfor detachably securing the gong to the bearing support is movable with respect to thegong and so constitutes a clapper therefor.

4. A device as set forth in claim 1, in which the gong-is relatively flat and so fits close to the side of the wheel.

5. A device as referred to in claim '1, in

which thecroW-n portion of the gong is provided with a compound curvature 'causin the crown to fit close to the telly of the Wheel while the larger portion of the gong is adapted to rotate close to the tire. DANIEL ALOYSIUS GILLEN, 

